Abstract
The international cooperation implied by the Romanian nuclear power program has on the short term the goal of supporting the Romanian effort of obtaining new nuclear fuels, improving the radioactive waste management, developing the technology and software transfer, training of Romanian researchers and participations in international projects. On long term the international cooperation is aiming at rising the scientific standards and the degree of global integration of Romanian research and technology. This policy is supported also by the agreements convened with different international organizations as for instance 'The Agreement for Nuclear Safety' or 'Common agreement for safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste'. The INR at Pitesti and CITON - Bucharest are involved in works for cooperation technical projects supported by IAEA Vienna aiming at the nuclear safe and safeguard and power programs. At present underway are research contracts concerning the CANDU pressure tube, the corrosion in the primary cooling circuit of the CANDU reactors, as well as, the behavior under irradiation and intermediate disposal of oxide fuels. In the frame of IAEA assisted technical programs the TRIGA reactor of INR Pitesti is transferred from HEU to LEU fuels, new technologies for using recovered uranium and slightly enriched uranium
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Diaconu, Daniela
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, PO Box 78, 1 Campului Street, RO-0300 Pitesti, Jud. Arges (Romania)
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Diaconu, Daniela.
Contribution of international cooperation in achieving the Romanian nuclear power objectives; Contributia cooperarii internationale in realizarea obiectivelor energeticii nucleare romanesti.
Romania: N. p.,
2002.
Web.
Diaconu, Daniela.
Contribution of international cooperation in achieving the Romanian nuclear power objectives; Contributia cooperarii internationale in realizarea obiectivelor energeticii nucleare romanesti.
Romania.
Diaconu, Daniela.
2002.
"Contribution of international cooperation in achieving the Romanian nuclear power objectives; Contributia cooperarii internationale in realizarea obiectivelor energeticii nucleare romanesti."
Romania.
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title = {Contribution of international cooperation in achieving the Romanian nuclear power objectives; Contributia cooperarii internationale in realizarea obiectivelor energeticii nucleare romanesti}
author = {Diaconu, Daniela}
abstractNote = {The international cooperation implied by the Romanian nuclear power program has on the short term the goal of supporting the Romanian effort of obtaining new nuclear fuels, improving the radioactive waste management, developing the technology and software transfer, training of Romanian researchers and participations in international projects. On long term the international cooperation is aiming at rising the scientific standards and the degree of global integration of Romanian research and technology. This policy is supported also by the agreements convened with different international organizations as for instance 'The Agreement for Nuclear Safety' or 'Common agreement for safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste'. The INR at Pitesti and CITON - Bucharest are involved in works for cooperation technical projects supported by IAEA Vienna aiming at the nuclear safe and safeguard and power programs. At present underway are research contracts concerning the CANDU pressure tube, the corrosion in the primary cooling circuit of the CANDU reactors, as well as, the behavior under irradiation and intermediate disposal of oxide fuels. In the frame of IAEA assisted technical programs the TRIGA reactor of INR Pitesti is transferred from HEU to LEU fuels, new technologies for using recovered uranium and slightly enriched uranium fuels are developed, as well as a data acquisition system with advanced on-line characteristics. The cooperation between INR Pitesti and AECL Canada comprised in the frame of the 1998 agreement is oriented towards three fields of common interest: nuclear safety, nuclear fuel and management of in-service life of NPPs. Already transferred were computer codes from AECL devoted to accident analysis (WIMS, CATHENA and ELOCA) which were implemented and reproduced accurately all the test cases provided by AECL. For installing these codes specialists from our institute participated in training courses, on-the-job training, as well as, in validation operations underway in Canada. Also initiated are cooperation programs with AECL concerning the performance testing of CANDU type reactor fuels, fuel cycling in TRIGA reactor, advanced CANDU fuel cycles, advanced reactor type with intrinsic safety or the final disposal of spent fuel. In the frame of an 'Information exchange and cooperation agreement' with the US Department of Energy, significant results were obtained in the field of radioactive waste management. A stratigraphic 3-D model of Saligny disposal site was workout, as well as, modelling of radionuclide transport in unsaturated zone, implementation of FEHM and PEST codes for simulation of radionuclide dispersion in the saturated zone and experimental determination of sorption and diffusion properties of radionuclides. The paper reminds also the cooperation with European Union in the frame of PHARE and Frame 5 projects concerning the CANDU type reactor safety. Finally, in the field of analytical methods in radioactive waste management as well as in determining the I-129 concentration in human tissues mentioned are the cooperation with NATO, Stefan Josef Institute from Slovenia and SK-CEN from Belgium.}
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title = {Contribution of international cooperation in achieving the Romanian nuclear power objectives; Contributia cooperarii internationale in realizarea obiectivelor energeticii nucleare romanesti}
author = {Diaconu, Daniela}
abstractNote = {The international cooperation implied by the Romanian nuclear power program has on the short term the goal of supporting the Romanian effort of obtaining new nuclear fuels, improving the radioactive waste management, developing the technology and software transfer, training of Romanian researchers and participations in international projects. On long term the international cooperation is aiming at rising the scientific standards and the degree of global integration of Romanian research and technology. This policy is supported also by the agreements convened with different international organizations as for instance 'The Agreement for Nuclear Safety' or 'Common agreement for safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste'. The INR at Pitesti and CITON - Bucharest are involved in works for cooperation technical projects supported by IAEA Vienna aiming at the nuclear safe and safeguard and power programs. At present underway are research contracts concerning the CANDU pressure tube, the corrosion in the primary cooling circuit of the CANDU reactors, as well as, the behavior under irradiation and intermediate disposal of oxide fuels. In the frame of IAEA assisted technical programs the TRIGA reactor of INR Pitesti is transferred from HEU to LEU fuels, new technologies for using recovered uranium and slightly enriched uranium fuels are developed, as well as a data acquisition system with advanced on-line characteristics. The cooperation between INR Pitesti and AECL Canada comprised in the frame of the 1998 agreement is oriented towards three fields of common interest: nuclear safety, nuclear fuel and management of in-service life of NPPs. Already transferred were computer codes from AECL devoted to accident analysis (WIMS, CATHENA and ELOCA) which were implemented and reproduced accurately all the test cases provided by AECL. For installing these codes specialists from our institute participated in training courses, on-the-job training, as well as, in validation operations underway in Canada. Also initiated are cooperation programs with AECL concerning the performance testing of CANDU type reactor fuels, fuel cycling in TRIGA reactor, advanced CANDU fuel cycles, advanced reactor type with intrinsic safety or the final disposal of spent fuel. In the frame of an 'Information exchange and cooperation agreement' with the US Department of Energy, significant results were obtained in the field of radioactive waste management. A stratigraphic 3-D model of Saligny disposal site was workout, as well as, modelling of radionuclide transport in unsaturated zone, implementation of FEHM and PEST codes for simulation of radionuclide dispersion in the saturated zone and experimental determination of sorption and diffusion properties of radionuclides. The paper reminds also the cooperation with European Union in the frame of PHARE and Frame 5 projects concerning the CANDU type reactor safety. Finally, in the field of analytical methods in radioactive waste management as well as in determining the I-129 concentration in human tissues mentioned are the cooperation with NATO, Stefan Josef Institute from Slovenia and SK-CEN from Belgium.}
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